Maine Dahlia Society

Maine Dahlia Society Membership is open to anyone with an earnest interest in the knowledge of dahlias.

Purpose
* To broaden the knowledge of accepted methods of cultivating dahlias.
* To promote healthy growing practices.
* To promote fellowship and fun among those who love to grow and see dahlias, and of course, there is always the sharing of tubers.
* To promote the appreciation of dahlias among the general public.
* To promote membership in the American Dahlia Society.
* To provide information about sources for dahlias though catalogues, literature and other venues available to gardeners.

A dahlia bed made ready for harvest. Varieties labeled. Netting and rebar supports taken down. Plants cut to above gro...
10/15/2019

A dahlia bed made ready for harvest. Varieties labeled. Netting and rebar supports taken down. Plants cut to above ground. Landscape fabric and irrigation picked up. Now the tubers stay in the ground for upto 2 weeks to harden off so they will store better for the winter.

800 plant tubers to lift out of the ground THIS SATURDAY! It's all fun to us "people of the dirt". Join us if you can, the more the merrier!

This years blooms at Rogers Farm
10/09/2019

This years blooms at Rogers Farm

Join us and see the beautiful blooms during our 3 upcoming events.** Sept 7 Rogers Farm Fall Festival** Sept 9 ...
09/04/2019

Join us and see the beautiful blooms during our 3 upcoming events.

** Sept 7 Rogers Farm Fall Festival
** Sept 9 East of Eden Flower Farm tour
** Sept 14 Paint Box Flower Farm tour

Details on the calendar of events page.

First harvest of the season, yeah!!!
07/21/2019

First harvest of the season, yeah!!!

09/15/2018

Reminder,
This coming Monday, September 17th, is our trip to Sky Fall Flowers. Owner Tania Cubberly, Maine Dahlia Society member, will give us a tour of her cut flower farm.

We will carpool from the Bangor Walmart north parking lot (Where the campers overnight.). Leaving at 9am or meet us for 11am at the farm.

The address is:
209 Sandy River Rd.
Starks or Hansen (on GPS), Me.
NOT Mercer, will put you on a dead end road

Check out her page

We have been busy adding another dahlia plot at Rogers Farm demonstration garden. Society members and UMaine students c...
07/02/2018

We have been busy adding another dahlia plot at Rogers Farm demonstration garden. Society members and UMaine students cleared the plot. A soil test was done and amendmets added. Charlene and Jess helped with irrigation and laying the fabric what had planting holes burned into it by Mary and Jim from Salt Farm Flowers. Tubers and plants started by Bagleys Greenhouse were planted. Now to watch them grow! Oh look, 2 weeks later, our first bloom.

02/02/2018

2018 Dahlia planning meeting this Sunday, 2/4 at 1pm, 17 Cromwell Dr., Orono.
Please RSVP Christine @ [email protected]

We will also discuss different ways of growing and harvesting dahlias.

If you have a tuber variety you would like to donate to the plot, or make more tubers from your favorite tubers, there will be a video on making cuttings that will bloom this year. I will have supplies to get them started. Bring your tuber to the meeting. Remember not to let it freeze getting here. (I have the rooting hormone).

If anyone would like to have some tubers from storage to start now at your home, we can check them out in my basement.

Not bad for our inaugural demonstartion garden at Roger's Farm this summer! Our potluck and and dahlia group ordering m...
11/27/2017

Not bad for our inaugural demonstartion garden at Roger's Farm this summer! Our potluck and and dahlia group ordering meeting is coming up soon on Dec 16th at 1 pm. See events for details.

10/27/2017

check page events tab for Dahlia Tuber Harvest details this Saturday.

Hello Everyone,It’s Harvest and Tuber sharing time. I am away until 10/25, so we will have the Harvest Saturday, 10/28 ...
10/09/2017

Hello Everyone,
It’s Harvest and Tuber sharing time. I am away until 10/25, so we will have the Harvest Saturday, 10/28 starting at 9:00AM, Roger’s Farm. Bring a spade if you have one and any tubers you would like to share.

Connie Perry, Audrey Cross, and I identified and labeled each plant. Marie and Al McMonagle, Holly and Dennis Violette, Connie and I cut all of them down after the frost. What is left to do is to dig up and wash them. Then we will move to 17 Cromwell Drive, Orono and demonstrate division & storage options while processing the tubers for storage. Also we will have a pot luck.

Hope you can join us Christine Mainella
518-461-8189

09/06/2017

DUE TO THE WEATHER, THE TRIP TO SALT FARM FLOWERS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO FRIDAY, SEPT 8TH, SAME TIME AND PLACES.

08/11/2017

The 2nd Saturday after the first frost will be the harvest of the dahlia tubers at Rogers farm. Learn about the harvest and different ways to store the tubers for the winter. More details closer to the actual date.

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914 Bennoch Road
Old Town, ME
04468

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